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The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by...

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2025/04/01

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great, #1: The Missing Hill by Titos Pavlou Lefteris_Loves_Fantasy review: 4 STARS 14 November 2013 As always, I’m doing a buddy read with MariaReadsALot because she talked me into it, and boy, was she right! What […] The post The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

The Disney Essays, One of Three My first semester at my MFA program in creative writing, I made the mistake of going to Disney World for the first time. By the end of the semester, this new hyperfixation had become an obsession. I joked that I had studied the Disney parks more than I’d studied […] The post Green Walls, Castles, and Dark Rides: What I Learned about Worldbuilding from Imagineers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/04/01

1. Jamie has never known what to say to her mother. And now—when it matters most of all, when she’s on a rescue mission—she knows even less. What the hell was she thinking? Somehow Jamie had imagined just marching up to the bright red door of her mother’s tiny house. She’d knock, and then proclaim: […] The post The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from <i>Lessons in Magic and Disaster</i>) appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine’s Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne M....

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/03/28

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine‘s Editor-in-Chief/Co-Publisher Michael Damian Thomas and Co-Publisher Lynne M. Thomas are the Content Editors for the first season of the new podcast It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton! You most certainly know Wil Wheaton from television shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory, and Leverage, and the […]The post Uncanny Magazine’s Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne M. Thomas Are the Content Editors for It’s Storytime

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The Flaming Embusen

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Jero cleared his throat before he continued speaking into the phone. “Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in earnest. The spectators had, indeed, taken the proceedings throughout as a piece of mirthful irony carried to extremes; and had assumed […]The post The Flaming Embusen appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Rati Mehrotra

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the science fantasy novels Markswoman (2018) and Mahimata (2019), published by Harper Voyager, and the YA fantasy novels Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (2022) and Flower and Thorn (2023), published by Wednesday Books. Her short fiction has been short-listed for the Sunburst […] The post Interview: Rati Mehrotra appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Cassandra

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

This poem is dedicated to Ted Chiang. Monday September 23rd, 1991 What is this? A letter I wrote —am writing— for you to find after your brother murders me. Is this a joke? It is not. It’s November 3rd, 2015, and my […] The post Cassandra appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Love Letter in Cobra Pose

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Those I love best are dust of feet, are bone to bone, are rag and gut—and none of this will matter. In fact matter will not matter. I cannot feel physics for void of you. Yes, I am flesh, wound as copper […] The post Love Letter in Cobra Pose appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 62B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Welcome to Episode 62B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 62B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Story: “The Flaming Embusen” by Tade Thompson, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Love Letter in Cobra Pose” by Shankar Narayan, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas interviews Tade […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 62B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know about...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

A few weeks ago, I experienced my first true injury caused by swordplay. We’re not counting the various bumps, bruises, and banged-up fingers that come from regular training—those occur so frequently as to become a non-event. Here, I took a hard thrust to the chest that sent me to the ground, the wind knocked out […] The post Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know about Writing Swords appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Accessibility Toolkit for When Things Go Wrong

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Let’s just say this upfront: Accessibility at SF/F events has vastly improved in the last ten years. Even better, open conversations around disability and accommodations are becoming standard and normalized. Making the world fully accessible is hard work. Accessibility can sometimes be resource intensive and complex. Sometimes there can be contradictory needs (example: there’s an […] The post Accessibility Toolkit for When Things Go Wrong appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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With Her Serpent Locks

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

Hey cuz! It’s been too long. Love to come out and see your digs. The message hung in the air, glimmering in her Heads Up Display overlaid across the moss garden she was tending. The chill that swept over Euryale made the hair on her arms stand on end and her gut churn. Her cousin […] The post With Her Serpent Locks appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Men with Tails

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/04

5th July Mid-afternoon tea with Mum in Toronto’s Little India1 to celebrate the publication of her latest poetry chapbook. In between bites of samosa, she said, “I did away with Harry, you know. My first husband.” Spoken in a casual tone, as if talking about the restaurant menu. She sipped her chai, leaving red lipstick […] The post Men with Tails appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Six Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2024 Locus...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/02/01

Great news, Space Unicorns! Six Uncanny Magazine stories are on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List! Congratulations to all of the authors! Best Novelette: “A Stranger Knocks” by Tananarive Due “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Best Short Story: “Happily Ever After Comes Round” by Sarah Rees Brennan “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine “Stitched […] The post Six Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2024 Locus

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Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2024!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/01/27

Hello, Space Unicorns! 2024 was another extremely tough year. Though many things were hard and horrible, we are very, very proud of all of the amazing works we published in Uncanny Magazine. Everyone in the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps has been wonderfully supportive, and your enthusiasm has meant so much to us. It’s been fantastic to […] The post Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2024! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine 2024 Poetry Eligibility

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/12

Space Unicorns! This year, poetry is eligible for both the Rhysling Award and the Hugo Award. Here is a list of all of the poetry published by Uncanny Magazine in 2024 and the appropriate Rhysling Award category! Short Poem (11–49 lines) Six of Swords Becomes The Emperor by Ali Trotta We Drink Lava by Ai Jiang genesis by Sodïq Oyèkànmí […]The post Uncanny Magazine 2024 Poetry Eligibility appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Romantasy All Along!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

One of the big publishing questions of 2024 has been What Is Romantasy? It’s a hot new marketing tag, thanks to TikTok and a rising excitement about books featuring swords and kissing. “Romantasy” sells books, and we do love a magical word that sells books. But with a magical word that sells books comes great […]The post Romantasy All Along! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 61B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

Welcome to Episode 61B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 61B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Erika Ensign, and Steven Schapansky Short Story: “The Geckomancer’s Lament” by Lauren Beukes, as read by Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo with sound designer Em Edwards Poem: “We Tried Beating Time to Death” by Abu […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 61B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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We Tried Beating Time to Death

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

it is i / who throws the first punch / into the face of the effigy we built / in the shape of an hourglass the others / stand in line / waiting to see / where i am going with this […] The post We Tried Beating Time to Death appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Them: The Scare Uses...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2024/12/03

Let me start by admitting that I did not watch season one of Them. Entitled Them: Covenant, it was a source of much controversy among critics and viewers. Many felt the series relied too heavily on racial trauma for its scares and that the show was exploitative of Black pain and suffering. This is connected […] The post Can’t We All Just Get Along? <i>Them: The Scare</i> Uses Afro-Surrealism to Produce Effective Scares appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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